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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Melancholy Objects.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Alfred Stieglitz produced photographs which supported Whitman's ideas, termed euphoric _____________.
(a) Humanism.
(b) Picarism.
(c) Realism.
(d) Truthism.

2. Photography, like other surrealist arts, is itself ___________ and yet it is transitory, according to Sontag.
(a) Stationary.
(b) Frozen in time.
(c) Death.
(d) Confusing.

3. Arbus made everybody look ________________ when she took her photographs.
(a) Deformed.
(b) Exactly the same.
(c) Unnatural.
(d) Weird.

4. Surrealism seeks to document and to reconnoiter ___________, much in the same way that photography does.
(a) Books.
(b) Class.
(c) Society.
(d) Animals.

5. Photography presupposes that _____________ can be a comprehensible totality, according to Sontag.
(a) People.
(b) Nature.
(c) Reality.
(d) Children.

Short Answer Questions

1. Surrealism, like photography, seeks to look at ___________ objects, according to those who deem them so.

2. Photography seems to establish what is worth __________ and what should be in a photograph.

3. In his photographs, Steichen gave ___________ material importance according to Sontag.

4. What kind of takeover did photography's influence lead to, according to Sontag?

5. Eventually, according to this chapter, _______________ will be photographed.

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